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Some questions regarding video playback
tyler69:
Hello there,
I do have some questions regarding video playback when connecting from outside the LAN (server: MC on Windows, client MC on macOS).
1. Are embedded subtitles supported? It does not seem like it to me.
2. Is seeking the video supported? I tested a few times and while the playback bar jumps to the point I click at and also the duration continues, MC locks up and I get the beachball.
3. Where does the conversion (for audio or video) take place? On the server or on the client?
Thanks!
bob:
In general you can't seek over the network from a Mac client with most formats since the Mac internet reading code doesn't support time based seeks.
You might however be able to seek if you select the client option to convert the video and choose one of the streaming formats like mpeg4-ts.
tyler69:
Thanks bob! Good to know. Are there any ambitions to "automize" conversions based on the user need? Going through tons of conversion settings in order to be able to seek through the video seems not user friendly to me.
Do I need to select also a special conversion for the subtitles to appear or are subtitles not supported at all when playing over internet?
Does the client or the server do the conversion?
bob:
--- Quote from: tyler69 on December 31, 2019, 05:14:05 am ---Thanks bob! Good to know. Are there any ambitions to "automize" conversions based on the user need? Going through tons of conversion settings in order to be able to seek through the video seems not user friendly to me.
Do I need to select also a special conversion for the subtitles to appear or are subtitles not supported at all when playing over internet?
Does the client or the server do the conversion?
--- End quote ---
One way to do this is to create a second DLNA server instance with conversion enabled for those. You could even create a custom tag field and tag the files that require it and customize the view so on those show un in the converting server.
The conversion is done on the server end.
IIRC subtitles (i.e. .srt) are compiled into the conversion.
tyler69:
Thanks, I actually meant to ask if JRiver has any ambitions to make this functionality more user friendly. I do have two zones on my client already and with a separate instance of a "server" on a different hardware, it already becomes messy to use, especially for people not acquainted with JRiver's idea of a server/client architecture. I do not want to add up to the complexity.
FWIW, I just tested which transcoding options work on a MacBook with 10.15.2 installed (please see attached screenshot). Almost all lead to a crash (marked red), however one seems to work fine also with seeking through the video (marked green). I did not test the options that are not marked. However, not a single option gives me the possibility to see subtitles.
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